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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to match '[' in nnmail-split-fancy
Date: 01 Apr 2001 23:53:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf3dbsqobd.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ae60xq2q.fsf@fermat.mts.jhu.edu> (Nevin Kapur's message of "01 Apr 2001 17:33:49 -0400")

On 01 Apr 2001, Nevin Kapur wrote:

> I'm having trouble matching the character '[' in
> nnmail-split-fancy. I have the following split rule:
> 
> 	("subject" "\\[.+\\] *$" "junk")

Fancy splitting matches on word boundaries, but `[' can never be the
start of a word, so you lose.  Try ".*\\[.+\\] *$", note the initial
`.*'. 

kai
-- 
Be indiscrete.  Do it continuously.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-01 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-01 21:33 Nevin Kapur
2001-04-01 21:53 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2001-04-02  0:32   ` Nevin Kapur
2001-04-02  6:05     ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-02 15:46       ` Nevin Kapur
2001-04-11 11:52         ` Kai Großjohann

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